Studies in the History of Sanskrit Poetics v1.c17.24

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³ With the curious exception of a Kashmirian MS in Śāradā character (Bühler's *Kashmir Rep.* no. 264) where the name in given as Rudraṭa. This unique testimony raises a legitimate suspicion, but it can be explained as a piece of not unnatural confusion made by a Kashmirian scribe, to whom the more famous name of Rudraṭa must have been more familiar. The same remark applies to the South Indian MS in *Madras Cat.* 12955, in which, however, thes last verse gives the name as Rudra. This evidence, however, of the colophons of MSS is not decisive; and it is well known the that even later anthologies and writers of note make a similar confusion between the two authors.